Cages Quotes

• Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Reality, Imagination

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• Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

  John Cage

  Finding Yourself

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• The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

  Virginia Woolf

  Confidence, Love Yourself, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2010). “Monday or Tuesday: And Other Short Stories”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

  Jacques Deval

  Life, Funny Love, Men

  "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

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• We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

  George Lucas

  Doors, Wide

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• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  Ray Bradbury

  Insanity, Bipolar, Crazy People

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Animal

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

  Paulo Coelho

  Bird, Safe

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• There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Way

  "Fictional character: Captain Christopher Pike". "Star Trek", TV Series (1966–1969). "The Cage", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• The only good cage is an empty cage.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Empty

  Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.368, Pan Macmillan

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• The bars on our cage are of our own making.

  Jessie Burton

  Bars

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• It's better to die free than live life in a cage.

  Jordan Dane

  Live Life, Dies

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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  Harry Belafonte

  Music, Song, Singers

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• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

  Rumi

  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Men, Sometimes, Has Beens

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• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Freedom

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• You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.

  Rumi

  Wings

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• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Bird, Joy, Born

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

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• Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

  John Fowles

  Trying, Environment

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.316, Random House

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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

  Aldous Huxley

  Liberty, World, Gilded

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• Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

  Andre Benjamin

  Nostalgia, Sometimes

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• A forest bird never wants a cage.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Bird, Want

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

  Michael Moorcock

  Prisoner, Knows

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• The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.

  Rachel Field

  Sight, Bird, Experience

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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